David Sawer at the New Music Biennial 2014

The PRS for Music Foundation has announced the twenty UK based composers who were chosen to write
12-minute works for the New
Music Biennial 2014, the successor of New Music
20x12. The commissions, ranging from
contemporary classical, folk and jazz to world, electronic and urban music,
will be performed at London’s Southbank Centre and in Glasgow in July and
August 2014.

David Sawer was commissioned
by Onyx Brass to write a piece for brass quintet that will be presented in informal
and free outdoor performances across Britain’s historic bandstands, outdoor
festivals, and public spaces, intending to bring contemporary music out of the
concert hall and on to the village green.